Adding a Dimension: Seventeen Essays on the History of ScienceAll essays in this volume are reprinted from the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. |
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... Infinity Zero " in its title index , and I am sure there are many other titles containing the word . Yet with all this exposure , with all this familiar use , do we know what infinite and infinity mean ? Perhaps not all of us do . We ...
... Infinity Zero " in its title index , and I am sure there are many other titles containing the word . Yet with all this exposure , with all this familiar use , do we know what infinite and infinity mean ? Perhaps not all of us do . We ...
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... infinity . " Even mathematicians introduce infinity here , and George Gamow , for in- stance , has written a most entertaining book entitled just that : One , Two , Three . . . Infinity . It might seem that using the word infinity is ...
... infinity . " Even mathematicians introduce infinity here , and George Gamow , for in- stance , has written a most entertaining book entitled just that : One , Two , Three . . . Infinity . It might seem that using the word infinity is ...
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... infinity , the endlessness of the integers , has been shown to be equal to aleph - null . In other words : ∞ = And so the tremendous vastness of ordinary infinity turns out to be the very smallest of all the transfinites . That variety ...
... infinity , the endlessness of the integers , has been shown to be equal to aleph - null . In other words : ∞ = And so the tremendous vastness of ordinary infinity turns out to be the very smallest of all the transfinites . That variety ...
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